Detroit Informer

Arne Duncan tells Detroit students schools 'are getting better' The two also visited classrooms at Detroit's Brenda Scott Academy of Theatre Arts, an Education Achievement Authority school, and were to lead a panel discussion on expanding access to high-quality preschool programs at the Perry Child Development … Full News here – Read more on The [...]

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East Lansing — Michigan State University researchers are getting $ 24.5 million from the U.S. Agency for International Development as part of a long-term effort to help developing nations find sustainable and secure food sources. Full News here – Schools RSS from The Detroit News

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This is what the Spartans do to people. It’s also what they do to each other. They push and prod and demand and dare, and when it’s over, they smile and get ready to do it again. Full News here – Detroit News columnists RSS from The Detroit News

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Food distributor hired 60 percent of its interns for full-time positions in the last 2 years. Full News here – Detroit Business News

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Detroit Mayor Dave Bing says pressure of job isn't getting to him, defends … The last two weeks had to be among the toughest periods yet for Mayor Dave Bing, who scored a few victories that came only after the state renewed its threats to appoint an emergency financial manager to wrangle the kinds of [...]

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Once it gets going, it goes pretty well. But man it takes its time getting going. That's the gist of "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey." For the first hour or so, it looks like a verifiable disaster, moving like mud despite an abundance of claptrap and noise. But eventually, director Peter Jackson, who had huge [...]

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It's been slow, particularly in the Tigers suite at The Opryland Hotel, where business has been mostly non-existent but conversation has been robust. Full News here – Detroit News columnists RSS from The Detroit News

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It'll just show up as one of what will probably be many losses this season, but last Friday's collapse to the Orlando Magic still sticks in the minds of everyone involved with the Pistons. Full News here – Detroit Pistons RSS from The Detroit News

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The Tigers will find out tonight who they’ll be playing in the World Series. It’ll be either the St. Louis Cardinals or San Francisco Giants, who will be playing a decisive Game 7 tonight in the National League Championship series in San Francisco. The World Series will open on Wednesday night in the National League [...]

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Detroit — Two Detroit charter schools are part of a program to help spur physical fitness and healthy eating. Full News here – Schools RSS from The Detroit News

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East Lansing — Michigan State University is getting $ 45 million for the education of'5 African students over the next nine years under a new scholarship program. Full News here – Schools RSS from The Detroit News

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East Lansing — Michigan State University is getting $ 45 million to help provide disadvantaged youth — especially those from Africa — with access to high-quality education. Full News here – Schools RSS from The Detroit News

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English attended his first Tigers’ game and has been working out with coaches and teammates at The Palace. Full News here – Ann Arbor mobile sports

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Local 4 is updating the situation inside the courtroom while Kwame Kilpatrick and his attorney hash out a so-called conflict of interest … Full News here – Click On Detroit News

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Free Press Staff Writer Jim Schaefer is blogging from a hearing where Wayne County Circuit Judge Lawrence Talon could decide whether Thomas and Raymond Highers, both 46, should be set free after a judge overturned their life sentences in the wake of new testimony that someone else did it. Full News here – freep

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